Schools across Scotland and Northern Ireland have been evacuated after receiving bomb threats.
‘Hundreds’ of schools reportedly received threatening emails and were forced to evacuate.
All schools across Edinburgh were briefly evacuated this morning, The Herald reports, while a large number of schools in the Highlands and Fife were also impacted.
The Education Authority in Northern Ireland said an email message had been sent ‘to a large number of schools’.
A wave of bomb threats also hit Italian schools this morning.
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According to La Repubblica, the message read: ‘This is Mikhail Andropov, leader of the Vilayat of Misoginistan. We have come to annihilate you. We will carry out genocide against the Italians.
‘I’ve been preparing for this for a long time: to kill every single one of you. I’ve just left a powerful, remote-controlled explosive device inside a plastic bag in your building. I’ve positioned it so that the shockwave will spread throughout the building. All that will remain of you will be bones and a bloody mess.
‘We also planted a bomb in the engine of your prime minister’s car. Then we’ll finish off the survivors with stab wounds.’
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